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CH. xvm] GERMAN ROMANESQUE 21by continuing the four planes of the triangular inclinedspaces till they meet between gable and gable, makingthe triangleinto a diamond. There is an unique exampleof such a spire in England, at the Saxon Church ofSompting in Sussex.The fine churches of S. Michael and S. Godehard atHILDESHEIM which date from the middle of the i ith century,with additions in the I2th, are in some respectsmore highly finished than the great churches on theRhine, though they cannot compete with them either inscale or in exterior magnificence. There is more carvingin the capitals, though they preserve the cubical form ofthe cushion type, and there is more variety in the navearcades which are divided by piers between groups ofarcheson columns.With the eastern part of STRASSBURG Cathedral, strassburgwhich was apparently re-built early inthe I3th century,one reaches the last stage of German Romanesque.There is the familiar central tower over the crossing ofan eastern transept enclosing a dome on squinches, andat the corners of the choir are two round turrets, but allthe arches are pointed, and the turrets are almost reducedto pinnacles. There are evident signs of a coming-and diedchange, but the Romanesque style lingered longhard in Germany, and it was not till the I3th centurywas well advanced that it finally gave way to the foreignstyle imported from France, which resulted in thecathedral of Cologne.The vast cathedral of TOURNAI, with its five towers,its Romanesque nave and transept, and its i4th centurychoir, a very lantern of glazed stonework, is one of themost striking in It liesEurope. outside the limits ofGermany proper ; but its apsidal transeptswith their